Mod’s please delete or whatever you feel best if i’m overstepping here..
I feel like this post is too valuable to loose/hide in a 2025 thread that perhaps most wont go back too. Since Wx, Climate & really good information does not adhere to OR recognize the calendar year i’m re-posting this link from @norcal74 here..
Looks like a pretty soggy start to January. Hopefully it spaces itself out and doesn’t dump all at once.
Norther Sierra Rainfall = 169% of Historical (1920-2020) Average as of today..
El Nino cometh!?
Not liking the incoming temp inversion at the higher elevations - seems like that setup will cook off what little snowpack we have going… 
Fuels Watcher here with an update..
After several direct observations i can report that Spring bulb type plants (daffodils etc) are now pushing up shoots in the north end of the valley. Thinking this too should come as no surprise given how the hardwoods have been reacting already. End-o-report!
#warmsoil #shiftingbaselines
I just found this really cool animation of the US Drought Monitor from 2010-2021.
You can really see how our huge fires of that era chased the droughts (2015 in LNU, 2016 Soberanes, 2017 Thomas, 2018 Carr, Ranch, Delta, Hirz, Camp, 2020 and 2021 Lightning Complexes, Dixie, Caldor).
And just like that the 70’s have solidly returned to the RDD/valley.
Both my Lab’s are in heatstroke again & i’m doing my best to manage a Type 1 shedding event thanks to the warm wx. Acclimation & hydration training comes early this year, YAY US!
Thought the annual stretch of wintertime golf weather usually came in Feb!? 
Even the fiddle neck is showing up down here, gonna have to start weed eating and spraying next month in the park or our seasonals will be burned out by June 
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Plenty of winter left ppl. Enjoy the sun at home while it lasts
65 degrees @ 2100hrs in mid Jan in The RDD! 
#giddyup! #shiftingbaselines